[DGHoodini]

Has been told his fate is tied to theirs. Specifically to Arthur’s fate.

[muawiyah]

During the great withdrawal from ESSEX, et al (which Arthur had foolishly signed over to the Saxons) Merlin went to Brittany. In those days it was a much larger principality and included the coast of Normandy and that peninsula.

The grapes were all dead. There were no animals or people in that region. It was barren. Merlin moved SE to the headwaters of the Rhone and planted grapes in a more climatologically welcoming regions ~ Beaujolais!

He stayed there a while, then withdraw back to the West and replanted the grapes there.

All of this is covered in the Annals of the Kings of Britain as well as the Arthurian folios preserved in Eastern France (which show Merlin much more important than Arthur).

(NOTE: I used modern English names for these people and places. Myrrdhin and Ad are probably more correct ~ but my favorite part is where Myrrdhin seals Ad in a cave and lets him rot. So much for giving away land to the Saxons).